Paradise Valley Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Paradise Valley Ranger Station, also known as the Paradise Valley Guard Station, located at 355 S. Main St. in Paradise Valley, serves a district of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Humboldt County, northwestern Nevada.”
Wikipedia article Paradise Valley Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Humboldt County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 355 S. Main St., Humboldt National Forest, Paradise Valley, 89426
When was it listed? June 1996
Category. district
Census division. McDermitt
National Register reference number. 96000662 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Paradise Valley Ranger Station between 1996 and 2019, burning about 13,896 acres in total. 8 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	TELEPHONE
15 September 2011	Natural	33 acres	Winnemucca District Office	ARROW J
13 August 1996	Natural	10 acres	Winnemucca District Office	COTTONWD2
13 August 1996	Natural	30 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	COTTONWOOD
10 August 2012	Natural	12,469 acres	Winnemucca District Office	HANSON
6 July 2007	Natural	21 acres	Winnemucca District Office	HINKEY
3 July 2015	Natural	26 acres	Winnemucca District Office	KEARN
27 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	SINGAS

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Paradise Valley Ranger Station: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Chase	Tungsten	Unknown
	Chase Prospect	Tungsten	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Micca House	0.3 miles	1975
	Silver State Flour Mill	5.2 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000662 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Humboldt County	All 13 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.